Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain.
Christopher HitchensThe offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that canโt give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I donโt know anything like enough yet; that I havenโt understood enough; that I canโt know enough; that Iโm always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldnโt have it any other way.
Christopher HitchensThe great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.
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